03 Proof
Proof, not promises
Three of our own projects, as they were handed over.
Hand-applied Italian lime, trowel-burnished, made to last. Specified by architects. Proven on heritage and commercial projects.
No general plastering, no skim coats, no subcontractors. The people on your wall do this every working day and nothing else.
Supplied by Zavorè, who import it. We have used it for years and we know exactly how it behaves.
Our work is specified on drawings, and includes a Grade II* listed building, which is as high as a listing goes.
Your finish, your colour, your wall. You choose from boards you can hold, before you commit.
Every line agreed before we start. The total does not move once it is signed.
Three of our own projects, as they were handed over.
Five steps, the same every time. You always know what happens next.
On the phone or on site. We check what the wall is made of and what the room has to put up with, and say which finish will cope.
Your finish, your colour, your sheen, on a panel you keep and look at for a few days. Nothing moves forward until you say so.
Preparation, materials, labour and protection, each on its own line. Nothing buried in a day rate. Signed, it stays signed.
Floors, joinery and furniture covered first. Dust kept down. Coats built and burnished to match the board. The site is cleaned every evening, not just the last one.
A walk round for snags, a note on looking after it, and a surface that gets harder and better with age. We answer the phone afterwards.
Marble dust and aged lime, burnished to a mirror. The finish most people picture when they say Venetian plaster.
A coarser marble aggregate, left matt or taken to a low sheen. More forgiving across a large wall, and it ages better.
Seamless, waterproof and thin enough to go over existing tile. Bathrooms, wet rooms and floors.
Moroccan lime, compressed with a stone and sealed with soap. Seamless and water-resistant, which is why it ends up in showers.
The softest of the six. Cloudy, chalky, brushed rather than trowelled. A whole room in limewash reads as calm.
Real metal particles that oxidise and patinate as they age. Bronze, brass, copper, iron.
We work across Coventry, which gives us two very different kinds of wall. The centre was rebuilt after the war, so we see a lot of mid-century brick and concrete, and the university refits student and faculty space constantly. Then there is the ring that escaped the bombing: Earlsdon, Stivichall, Styvechale and out towards Kenilworth, where the Edwardian and 1930s houses keep their original proportions.
The post-war stock is flat and solid and takes our microcement and polished plaster cleanly. In Earlsdon and Kenilworth we work in lime, because the houses are lime. On the commercial side, the hotels and restaurants near the cathedral and the Belgrade are the kind of fit-out that wants a wall that photographs.
Everything about how we work — the samples, the fixed price, the six finishes — is on our main Venetian plastering page. This page is about Coventry.
We cover the whole of Coventry and the towns around it. If your address is not listed, ask anyway.
Send a photo of the wall and a rough size. We reply within one working day.
If you need any help, feel free to get in touch. We are happy to answer anything about finishes, timings or price.
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